New Zealand Gazette – 2016 – No. 97

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✨ Gasfitting Registration Requirements



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 97 — 27 OCTOBER 2016

(i) submitted a completed pre-registration application form to the Board that includes the following documentation:

A. an international qualifications assessment report from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority concluding that the applicant’s gasfitting qualification is equivalent to, or greater than level 4 on the National Qualifications Framework;

B. unless the applicant has already been granted New Zealand residence, police certificates that are no older than six months from the applicant’s country of citizenship (unless they can provide satisfactory evidence they have never lived there), and from any country the applicant has lived in for 12 months or more (whether in one visit or intermittently) in the last 10 years, that the Board assesses as meeting its fit and proper person registration requirements; and

C. evidence that the applicant has worked full-time in the gasfitting trade for four years or more; and

(ii) passed the examination specified in paragraph 11(2) below, which they may sit in their home country by arrangement with the Board.

Tradesman gasfitter competencies

(2) The examination a person must pass in order to register as a tradesman gasfitter is Examination 9193 set by the Board.

(3) Examination 9193 will be set by the Board so that, to pass the examination an applicant demonstrates knowledge, and the experience and practical ability to install, test, commission, fault-find, and maintain gasfitting systems through possessing competencies in the areas of:

(a) Trade calculations and trade sciences. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

(i) estimation, measurement, and calculation using measurement systems;

(ii) application of formulae;

(iii) gas rating;

(iv) heat input/output calculations;

(v) pipesizing;

(vi) fluing;

(vii) corrosion;

(viii) flame characteristics;

(ix) flammability limits;

(x) physics laws and their application as they relate to gasfitting;

(xi) combustion and ventilation; and

(xii) expansion and contraction.

(b) Limitations in and the application of material used in gasfitting, including material protection and jointing methods. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

(i) copper;

(ii) polyvinylchloride (PVC);

(iii) polyethylene (PE);

(iv) mild steel;

(v) stainless steel;

(vi) polypropylene;

(vii) cross-linked polyethylene;

(viii) brass/bronze;

(ix) cast iron;

(x) aluminium;

(xi) fire-rated materials; and

(xii) the use of tools and equipment.

(c) The installation, testing, commissioning, fault-finding, and maintaining of gas installations. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

(i) appliances;

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